Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional chinese calendar. The festival was traditionally held to honor deities or gods and ancestors. There are traditions concerning the celebration of the New Year such as thoroughly cleaning your hous to sweep away any ill-fortune. Windows and doors are decorated with red paper-cuts and couplets which are mostly about good fortune or happiness. Lighting firecrackers and giving away money in red paper envelopes is also something that is done during Chinese New Year. The evening before the New Year's Day, Chinese families gather for the annual reunion dinner. Dumplings are the food that is mostly served during the festival.
Dumplings are made of pieces of dough wrapped around a filling which can be prepared using a variety of different methods such as baking, boiling, frying, simmering or steaming. The dough can be made of bread, flour or potatoes and the filling can be made of meat, fish, cheese, vegetables and more. so you have a lot of variety in dumplings.
Did you know that it is illegal to buy Kinder
Surprise eggs in the USA?
The 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic
Act bans food items with unvisible non-food items in them because kids could
choke on the toys. The thing is that the toys in the eggs are concealed in
a big, uneasly openable yellow capsule, and the package shows clearly not to
give the eggs at children under three years.
When the border police finds the
eggs, you can expect heafty fines running up to $2.500 per egg. contradicting is that in the USA
you can buy guns in the local supermarket.
So guns are safer than a surprise
egg? Time to rob a bank with an egg!
